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Originally Posted by ControllerC
Are all the audio files in the project automatically saved in a Reaper song file? (.RPP)
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The Reaper project file (.RPP) contains all the project related information but not the actual audio files. Instead, it stores the paths of where the audio files were at the time of saving the project. When loading up the project, Reaper then looks for those files from the paths saved into the RPP file.
MIDI files are an exception to this. By default Reaper imports the MIDI files and creates new ones as in-project MIDI items. These are saved into the RPP file itself. This can be changed in Preferences/Media/MIDI if working with separate .MID files is preferred.
As for archiving songs, it's probably most clear approach to save each project into its own folder and have all the project related media inside that. Archives/backups could then be just copies of these project folders.
Save Preferences & Auto Save by Kenny Gioia
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